Dr. Marc Gopin, Visiting Associate Professor of International Diplomacy, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Senior Associate in the Preventive Diplomacy Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); and Dr. Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, President of the Minaret of Freedom Institute, adjunct professor of religion at the University of Maryland in College Park, MD and Johns Hopkins-SAIS.

Ruth Wedgwood, professor of International Law at Yale and Johns Hopkins Universities; Ellen Laipson and Enid Schoettle the National Intelligence Council (NIC); Eric Schwartz, former National Security Council (NSC); Matthew McLean, NSC; Matthew Vaccaro, Defense Department; State Deptartment, Dennis Skocz; Robert Orr, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Julia Taft and Tapio Kanninen, United Nations, and others.

A conference co-sponosored with the International Peace Academy examined the intersection between the economic factors of conflict and the more traditional factors, including ideology, identity, and geopolitical security.